An update for fans of the Arkansas Nabokov, Don Harington. First, I must say this update is more than a week out of date, so it may not be accurate.
News has been discouraging. Don had surgery on the broken hip and was recuperating nicely, scheduled for rehab and the pneumonia on the run, but a food tube clogged and he aspirated, and got pneumonia worse than ever. Plus they found a staph infection.
The whole sequencing was devastating to Kim, who had gone through hell to see this much progress, only to have it suddenly torn away. More devastating for Don, of course, but he’s being kept under with painkillers and sedatives again, and is to some degree unaware of the crisis. Not sure that foggy knowledge something is wrong is actually any better, but there you are.
Wish I had better news. Perhaps things have improved since I last heard.
Again, if you want to send good wishes, address care of Kim (email in the previous post).
Thanks for the update, Jack, even if it’s such lousy news. Keeping Don and Kim and the family in our thoughts here.